+"The American story is, really, just enough of us did just enough of the
+right thing at the right moment to push us forward."
+
-- Jon Meacham
+"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We
+spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If
+during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate
+with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."
+
-- Gene Roddenberry
+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes...
+ but because he hits all the right emotions."
+
-- Will I Am
+"Taste your words before you spit them out."
+
-- Andy Card
"That which hinders your task is your task." +
+"Energy without focus is chaos."
+
-- Ne-Yo, while judging on World of Dance
+
+
+"Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine."
+
-- David Oyelowo
+
+
+"Fast is relative to what you're driving."
+
-- Hurley Haywood
+
+
+"I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education
+other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is
+a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher---a
+situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things,
+and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply
+sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
+
-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
+
+"If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed
+on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some
+other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science
+were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure
+it all out again."
+
-- Penn Jillette
+
+
+"A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees light at the end of the
+tunnel. A realist sees a train coming. The train's engineer sees three
+idiots standing on the track..."
+
-- Unknown
+
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -29,6 +85,10 @@ commit resources, or nothing new will ever be created."
"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence."
-- Will Henry
+
+"Have more than you show, speak less than you know."
+
-- William Shakespeare
+
"Kids are more nimble than wise..."
-- Nancy Gibbs, in a Time opinion piece
@@ -147,6 +207,14 @@ orientation -- be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?"
intelligent are full of doubt."
-- Bertrand Russell
+"The difference between stupid and intelligent people â and this is true
+whether or not they are well-educated â is that intelligent people can
+handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory
+situations â in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious
+when things seem overly straightforward."
+
-- Neal Stephenson, from The Diamond Age
"People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be
great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue -- this
@@ -158,6 +226,11 @@ is what will endear him to the locals."
is traded for a worthy price."
-- Orson Scott Card, a realization by an older Columbus in Pastwatch
+"Enduring pain to do something good for someone you care about, isn't that
+what life is?"
+
-- Dr Eric Foreman, a character on the TV series House
+
"Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."
-- Alfred Hitchcock
+"A lady is never unintentionally rude."
+
-- Mrs Walter Russell Winfree
+
"If ever a World Government should come into existence, it had better be a government designed to be run by crooks rather than a government designed to @@ -287,6 +364,22 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
"Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers."
-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about Debian, Philosophy, and People
+
+"Being awesome is exhausting."
+
-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+
+âMost conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of
+a witness.â
+
-- Margaret Miller
+
+"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
+
-- Margaret Mead
On Programming
--------------
@@ -299,7 +392,7 @@ to do a complete Debian desktop install!"
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
is not worth knowing."
-
-- Perlis
"We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust
@@ -365,6 +458,7 @@ struggling with the code, compiler and environment."
"System administrators pray to Eris, afterwards, very softly, thanking
her for staying away..."
--Kees J Bot, in comp.os.minix, talking about preparing for an upgrade...
+
+"The difference between Open Source and Free Software is that Free Software +people know there's a difference, and Open Source people try to pretend +there isn't."
+ Things Said About Me -------------------- @@ -395,3 +494,4 @@ Things Said About Me "I was all set to get annoyed, and then I thought, 'No, that's what they pay Bdale for ...'"